Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Congress is poised to look into the causes of Monday's deadly West Virginia mine explosion and whether policy changes can prevent future disasters.
On Tuesday, Rep. George Miller, D-Cailf., chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, accepted Rep. Nick Rahall's request to hold hearings.Rahall, D-W. Va., sent a letter to Miller asking him to hold hearings to "closely examine this disaster, to understand what caused the massive explosion, and to discern what further action might be taken to prevent it from ever happening again."It was not clear when the hearings will be held. Congress returns from its Easter break next week.Sen. Jay Rockefeller , D-W. Va., said he "will demand answers" to the huge underground explosion that killed 25 miners and left four others missing."We will leave no stone unturned in determining how this happened and in taking action for the future," he said.In West Virginia, rescue crews were drilling 1,000 feet into the earth to release gases and make it sa...A mining company has settled wrongful death lawsuits with families of all 29 victims of West Virginia's Upper Big Branch disaster, an attorney for the estates of two...
Federal documents filed by a NASA fraud investigator indicate a former head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration and the Catholic college in West Virginia wh...
One of the world's foremost experts on mine safety — from gold mines in Chile to the coal mines of southern West Virginia — stands accused by a NASA fraud investigat...
The families of two miners killed in last year's West Virginia mine explosion and another man who survived it have filed lawsuits against Massey Energy as the one-ye...
6 reported dead , two dozen more believed to be trapped underground
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's mine safety chief says he's begun issuing subpoenas to reluctant witnesses to the nation's worst coal mining disaster in 40 ...
WASHINGTON -- The White House says President Obama will deliver a eulogy Sunday for the 29 miners killed in a West Virginia coal mine explosion. Obama and Vice Presi...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The Mine Safety and Health Administration wants a judge to dismiss a lawsuit over how it's interviewing witnesses in a West Virginia coal mi...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Government investigators evacuated Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine after encountering methane gas while searching for clues to the dea...
Dangerous levels of methane gas hampering rescue
The latest information on the mining disaster in West Virginia
CHARLESTON, West Virginia -- The Massey Energy coal mine where 25 people died in an explosion was cited for violating two federal safety rules on the day of the bla...
Massey Energy Co. says it has offered families of the 29 miners killed in last year's West Virginia coal mine explosion $3 million each to settle their claims.The de...
In the biggest settlement ever reached in a U.S. mining disaster, the new owners of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 men were killed in an explosion agreed Tuesd...
The Democratic members of West Virginia's congressional delegation say the latest report on a deadly 2010 mine explosion should jar their colleagues into acting on s...
An international expert on mine safety will retire from his current post as a vice president of Wheeling Jesuit University amid an investigation into how he and the ...
MONTCOAL, W.Va. -- A huge underground explosion blamed on methane gas killed 25 coal miners in the worst U.S. mining disaster since 1984, and rescuers on Tuesday beg...
Sen. Jay Rockefeller is asking the Obama administration to update the families of miners killed in West Virginia's Upper Big Branch mine explosion on the government'...
The new owners of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 men were killed in an explosion agreed Tuesday to pay a record $210 million in penalties over what the governm...
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